Law Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old law quotes, law sayings, and law proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.

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The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.

Edward Abbey

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Law is king of all.

Henry Alford

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Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

John Arbuthnot

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Surely we will not dare say that these laws are unjust, or rather, that they are not laws at all. For it seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

Augustine of Hippo

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Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

Henry Ward Beecher

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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Hannah Arendt

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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Edmund Burke

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Edmund Burke

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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Henry Ward Beecher

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The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Ward Becker

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There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Alfred Adler

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As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights.

John Peter Altgeld

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Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community

St. Thomas Aquinas

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Judicial bodies provide a forum for truth telling

Louise Arbour

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The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.